skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two Ideas:

1) Run some paid advertising to get you in front of potential buyers. Who would be the ideal customer (in this case 'ideal buyer') for this asset?

The benefit of a marketplace is that you find people who are ALREADY looking to buy. That's nice. But many times people aren't aware of the benefits of software. Map out the top 3-10 benefits that the buyer would have. Then run ads which get you in front of them. Sell them on the fact that this application is the answer to their problems. Rather than going through the pain of developing it themselves - they buy from you.

2) Established Marketplaces. Of course you mentioned Flippa. Flippa may not be the best placed for a seller because it's a buyer's market. Also 90+% of buyers there want sites, apps, etc with demonstrated revenue.

Here are some other marketplaces though you may find helpful:

Marketplace.Sitepoint.com

Websitebroker.com

Buysellwebsite.com
Aappbusinessbrokers.com
Apptopia.com (for mobile apps - may be able to discover some buyers interested in Windows appications).

Good Luck
Not that it matters much, and this is only anecdotal but I had friends who would smoke pretty frequently. A lot of call centers, and retail spots would drug test. My friends would still get the job if they got past the initial interview. It seems like most companies are more interested in harder drugs, which I can understand.

On topic: I think that if you're looking for a cost effective way to live, do what someone said earlier and move to a less prominent neighborhood. This seems like it would be more along the lines of "fun to do for a couple weeks".
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Major data leaks / security issues like this are not confined to sites that are 10 minutes old. Yesterday I discovered a recently funded startup is exposing all personal user data and activity to the world via their public, unprotected APIs. I'm hoping they fix it quickly before someone interested in harvesting that data finds it.
That was a wonderful deck. Simple but direct to the point.
Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental
As a (happy) short seller of ZNGA who covered after hours Thursday, I think it should have been painfully obvious from day 1 that the business was unsustainable in its current incarnation, and that every avenue of growth (e.g. internet gambling) would be stifled by competition (e.g. MGM, LVS)
Don't sweat 802.11ac Wi-Fi because 802.11ad will knock your socks off
Yes was a Microsoft Hand , they killend it and went to more complex indexed db that no one loves

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Following-the-Wh1t3-Rabbit-Down...
However there are signs that this is changing.

I've been hearing this for fifteen years now, which is about as long as I've been paying attention. For the first five years I was maybe even a little concerned. (In the nineties programmers were going to become obsolete because OOP worked and all code was about to become highly reusable so there wouldn't be any need to write new code. Yes, people were saying this in earnest.)
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You can bin deploy MVC 4 sites to Azure (or regular servers running .NET 4). I have a couple MVC 4 sites running on Azure right now.
Without going near your comments on Capitalism, I don't think Spotify's situation is as clear-cut as you do. Why would I pay $20, $15, or even $11, when I can get the exact same service from at least a dozen other companies for $10/month or less? (Rhapsody, Zune, Slacker, Rdio, etc.)

If they raise prices at all, they're likely to lose a significant number of subscribers. If they raise prices and somehow keep those subscribers, the record companies may very well just milk them for the difference in increased licensing costs.
Wow this is nicely done. I added a homebrew cask for it so it can be installed via `brew cask install anvil`. https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/commit/aff3777759dfc...
New(local) for safer and simpler code with no need for smart-pointers
RestfulRouting is nice

Edit: That library looks pretty good as well. It does come down to a personal preference thing.
> A few developers I've known have made the case that they just don't see text editing speed as the bottleneck in their day-to-day work.

Right, it's only a bottleneck if you use the wrong tool for the job. As much as I love vi for text editing, it is the wrong tool for HTML editing and for a growing number of other file types for which more specialized editors exist (e.g. Eclipse for Java).

I know that vi experts think they are very fast with vi but they are wrong: if you are using vi for anything but simple text files, you are not being as productive as you could be and you should really consider being more mentally flexible and use the right tool for the job instead of vi for every job.
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Counterpoint.

I read it, and I'm glad to occasionally read articles for a niche that I truly care about no matter how long they are.
Have you heard of https://openphoto.me/ ? It is open source and might be extendable into what you want.
The automatic support for routing to .mobile views is really nice, for one thing.

The small improvements to Razor (e.g. automatic ~/ parsing and conditional shortcuts) are also nice time/trouble savers.
I know the part about t-shirts is a joke, but you can print your own with stuff bought at Home Depot and in a DIY setup the cost is roughly 3$, being the most expensive stuff the t-shirt and the paint.
Lonely, but united: Sherry Turkle and Steven Johnson
Emacs tidbits for Ruby developers
I've compiled a short list of Emacs configuration snippets that make me more productive when working with Ruby.
What does provide real value?

I am sure it sounds like nitpicking, but arguments that hinge on an idea of real value are inescapably about a moral judgement of some kind.

It hardly matters whether you are cursing the rise of manufacturing in contrast to agriculture, or complaining about the growing portion of wealth and prosperity coming from the service sector.

Does the distinction draw a line between Zynga and other games, or between games and other entertainment. Where do professional sports fit in the hierarchy of products with virtue? How about art?

I think GP is getting somewhere with the idea about innovation and extraction, and maintaining focus on the utility players derive as an imperative before any extraction can be done. However, it is very easy to get off track venturing into vague notions about real or fake value. If users enjoy playing the games then theentertainment is offering value no more imaginary than any other.
If Netflix had almost every new movie release and a larger catalog maybe it would be an apples to apples comparison.
Quote your link:

>python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to python3 on some bleeding edge distributions

Is Arch considered bleeding edge?
"The best artists learned to find solitude in the middle of the metropolitan space," she said. And "we need to learn to find solitude in the technological space." --Paul Miller quoting Sherry Turkle

I submitted this short piece by Paul Miller (who has left the Internet for a year) to see how we feel about reflection in the age of the firehose.
Money is about being good at something. I know of lawyers that barely scrape by on insurance law suits because all they know how to do is prey on the fear and pain of injured people. Such lawyers have to buy $500 suits and drive BMWs and belong to country clubs to stay presentable, and thus have to scrape by on 80-100k a year.

Similarly, I know carpenters and plumbers who will get the job done - and make a lot more than the aforementioned lawyers. These pros can demand hourly rates of anywhere from $60-$80, but more often will make $250-$500/hr by quoting a job price and doing it quickly. And it's no problem for them to drive to all their appointments in their 1997 Ford E series wearing flannel and jeans.

I could also introduce you to janitors that make six figures a year because they know how to penetrate insurance bureaucracies and get black mold cleanup jobs.

If money is your aim, pick a job out of a hat and be excellent at it - and not just the actual execution, but the promotion, estimation, and pricing of your talent too. If you can get into the 25th percentile of solving problems in your expertise, you'll be well compensated for it no matter what it is.
Coffee Linked to Vision Loss
Google sure has multi-billion dollar projects. Chrome is an example. They're spending that much just _marketing_ the thing every year.

Even if we stick to just the development side, I would be very surprised if Google has not spent > 250 million a year on Chrome development over the last 4 years.
I think a fundamental assumption in this article is flawed: "The most popular games are still pretty simple, but mid-core games like strategy simulator War Commander are gaining steam. Some people who used to be content clicking FarmVille crops have moved on to more complicated games."

So called "mid core" games on Facebook are generally male focused war/strategy titles. Most Farmville/Cityville, etc. players are women. They haven't "moved on" to more complicated games. They've just grown tired of the same formula.
> The problems are mostly with people assuming `python` means `python2`, and distros/installs not providing the `python2` command

Yes, Arch follows the recommendations of the link you provided. I was compiling a naïve program that assumed /usr/bin/python to be Python, so I was trying to hack autoconf (or cmake?) by overriding the hard-coded path with the python2 libdir.

I thought it would be nice to ask python2 itself for its library path so I asked #python. The channel moderator in turn appended "NO ARCH" to the channel banner once I mentioned Arch Linux.
And yet, I own both :)
Last I heard Rdio is in acquisition talks with Microsoft so it seems like they're absolutely in a similar boat. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/03/rumor-microsoft-is-...
A dream job is still a job. There are still parts that are tedious, and frustrating (if you're not encountering anything frustrating, you're not doing anything important), and annoying. That's why they pay you. And that's why "do what you love" is a myth. You can't always do what you love. Sometimes you have to do things you do not love, and just be happy that part of the time you get to do what you enjoy.

Far too many people chase a "dream job" not understanding that every job will have parts they simply will not love. And instead of accepting that this is reality, they fixate on the problems and fall prey to "the grass is greener" thinking. I'm sure Elon Musk loves his job (indeed he has many people's "dream job"), but I bet 90% of it is tedious bullshit.
I think a better statement is: love what you do (by getting good at it). Cal Newport summarized this recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/jobs/follow-a-career-passi...
This is a very interesting idea. It certainly seems plausible, I wonder if anyone has studied it.
I don't think that's a very reasonable thing to say. Samsung-LSI (which is the "Samsung" in question here) consistently makes better BSPs than, say, TI or nvidia (with their big WinCE-like layer inside the kernel).

Samsung Mobile has a reputation for making poor quality Android UIs (though they also have a few other OS projects going on; the EFL one and something else).

Also, Samsung-LSI generally makes better SoCs than the other guys (normally the bus works properly, etc). If you wanted to pick on them in a constructive way then you could say "I hope they clean up their mess in arch/arm..."
Passion only burns out if you consistently fail to pace yourself, or if it wasn't really innate passion in the first place.
In some places, you'll run into co-ops (cooperative). For example, New York City. Their prevalence elsewhere has, I've heard, generally declined in favor of condominium charters. (A major factor, I vaguely understand, being the increased autonomy of the members.)

I'm not versed in the details, but in co-ops, group administration seems to have a stronger role. For example, you may need formal approval of the co-op in order to sell your unit, with respect to the particular sale at hand. In other words, if they don't like the prospective buyer (and can argue this on a non-discriminatory basis, I imagine), you have to find another buyer.

Some friends bought into a co-op, and I was solicited to write a letter of recommendation. In addition to a good and well-worded argument for their tenancy, I "punched it up" by placing it on company letterhead and emphasizing the formal role. Apparently, that did the trick. My point being, they had to sell not just the owner but the co-op on their purchase of the unit.

As I think about this, I imagine many co-ops might have some strong opinions on their members' prospective use of AirBNB.
It's a common misconception that Web API is built on or tied to MVC. It's not though. You can use it in a WebForms site just as easily as in an MVC site. You can even self-host Web API outside of IIS entirely.

Also, Web API isn't intended to replace WCF. The "connected systems" people have a whole different set of needs than people building simple web-facing APIs. I don't think we should expect to see WCF or "Add Service Reference" going away anytime soon.
I wasn't expecting to be a fan of Spotify but I have had a subscription on my iPhone this past year and it has been excellent. I no longer keep iPod (iTunes-synced) music on my devices.
No artist signed to a major label can do deals outside of that deal. The whole point of their signing is that they have an exclusive deal with the label.

So while Spotify could go direct to some artists, none of the big ones can make that kind of deal.
But a shortage would see throwing those $150K+ jobs to just about anyone who can turn on a computer. The fact that you have to have existing networks and secret handshakes to even find such jobs is not what a shortage looks like, it is just a normally functioning market.
House Science Member Claims Earth Is Only 9,000 Years Old
I spent a number of years of my youth in Las Vegas and I think that between this 'Casino' comment and potalicious' comment you've captured a lot what looks like the core issue to me.

Slot machines (especially electronic ones) are fascinating in their ability to have their payout 'tuned'. And slots typically pay out 98 - 99% of the money they take in. But what is also true is that there is a sharp 'knee' in the curve between where people sit and play slot machines for hours, and where they leave immediately after they lose their money.

The weird not immediately obvious thing, is that slots that let you 'win' a lot encourage play. When someone is sitting there and 'winning' and up 50% on their night, and then lose back to being 50% down will keep playing to 'get back' to that winning state. But people who just win enough to slow their exhaustion of cash stop when they run out. They never had a time when they felt like they were 'ahead' they just watched their cash get smaller and smaller.

New Casino owners who would get scared about big slot payouts would worry, "What if everyone takes their winnings and just leaves?" which is a legitimate worry, but you have to believe the statistics are legit and the payout is 98%, not 100+%. As it turns out those winners brag which brings in more people. And as Steve Wynn once said, "Slots make money on the quantity of the players not the quality." Meaning that the more money that goes through them the more his cut of the output.

Zynga appears focused early on revenue generation per player but not as function of all players it seemed, rather as a function of single players. By tuning the production of individuals through gameplay tweaks the over all experience is compromised such that they recognize they are being exploited and that takes away the 'fun' part of playing. At some level everyone knows they are funding Zynga (or a Casino) but they do it willingly because its 'fun'. A very fine line be 'fun' and 'not fun' when the value goes down.

If Zynga could recruit Pichette away from Google it would probably help their bottom line tremendously.
I'm aware of the distinction - but in this case - to me at least - the cost and the value are the same. The value of streaming songs is exceptionally minimal when they are easily acquired for free via other means. The only value add in my mind is the convenience of not having to download albums in the first place. The value of that convenience is tied very closely to the cost of providing it as I could set up my own streaming service for personal use "at cost" so to speak with a cheap vps and a collection of downloaded music - or use something like iTunes match which costs ~$2.00 a month, if I'm willing to put forth the effort to acquire the music initially.
I knew someone would mention Netflix for comparison -- the problem is that I think they're too inexpensive as well :)

Mind you, as a consumer I'm not complaining about low prices. It's awesome. But I'm also mindful of the economics --

I pay $50+ / month for my cable TV subscription. I don't like it. I'm not "happy" about it. But you know what -- I haven't cancelled it yet either, so something's keeping me there -likely the 'flip channels' factor, which is nice and brainless, and the availability of live news - MSNBC, CNN, local news, etc. Sometimes you just want to sit down and turn the TV on, and I'm willing to pay for that.

But the point remains that there's a big gap between $9.99 Spotify / $8 Netflix and $50-$100 cable, both of which many people are willing to pay for.
I like this piece — it does a good job of humanizing a CEO that not many people know a ton about and arguably gets downplayed compared to Jack Dorsey — but I feel like there were two missed opportunities here.

One, the API issue barely came up, taking up just two paragraphs of the entire article with no quote from Costolo on the matter. Two, I'd be curious to hear what he thinks about Google letting FeedBurner essentially die on the vine – or if there's still a long-term value to FeedBurner as a product.

That said, I knew about his history with improv, but the way the piece ties that together with his executive skills is pretty neat.
I must be missing something here with regards to revenue. Spotify has 15 million users, 4 million of whom are paid subscribers. So 11 million free users.

They have two paid plans: $60/year and $120/year.

If we assume the following structure:

11000000 free users @ $0.50 ad revenue per year = $ 5,500,000
4000000 mid users @ $60/year = $240,000,000
0 top users @ $120/year = $ 0

For a total of $245.5 million in revenue, already more than reported here. And those proportions for their two paid plans are clearly ridiculous. But even if their free users provide $0 in revenue _total_, they still only have 2% of paid users on their top plan.
Are you using IE9 or IE10? IE10 supports lots of stuff IE9 doesn't.
Google announces YouTube now has more than 1,000 educational channels
Running a company would be 100x easier if the principals could be made across in 10 points.
I think you're doing his list an injustice. It's just a brain dump of the collection of intricate lessons you learn as an entrepreneur, with some personal stuff thrown in.

I actually liked it and I think the "10 most important"-anythings really fail at conveying what a delicate, complicated and demanding thing running a company is.
Most command-line junkie types actually use vim, not vi. vim is quite practical for editing an enormous variety of file types at breakneck speed, and this is coming from someone who used to exclusively use environments such as Eclipse.
@smeagol. First of all you fucked up. So stop acting so high and mighty and apologize to rkearney and everyone else who even thought about signing up for your product. Secondly, if this was just meant for you and your friends, don't go public with it and post it on HN. I highly recommend another hobby in a different field because clearly this one doesn't agree with you. Lastly, please stop calling yourself a nerd.
Suggestions on getting the favicon to show up?
Bitcoin's value is decentralization
I think the blame ultimately lies on the Python side, for not giving clear guidance that switching /usr/bin/python is a bad idea. (But Arch definitely deserves plenty of blame for making a bad decision where the Python guidelines allowed them to choose.)

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-Dec...
I know this is bonkers, but maybe some people are more productive with GUI IDEs and some are more productive with vim and a terminal multiplexer.
Thank you, this is really great. I love simple little things like this that just make life better.
I believe the proper term is narcissist!
I've also been avoiding JavaFX out of fear it won't last. The WebView component (Webkit view) is the only bit of JavaFX I've actually used.
The starting salary distribution for a lawyer is an interesting graph: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib

Basically, after graduating from a law school you either get hired by a good law firm or not. In the former case, which happens to some 20% of graduates, your starting salary will be $160k. In the latter case your salary will be dictated by an unexciting distribution with the peak around $50k.
The author is a bit naive in his cheerleading, extrapolating his situation in his location to a nation-wide situation. That is just simply not the case.

As a business-owner in my mid-40's, I travel around quite a bit. There are locations where the employment picture is similar to what the author describes. But what he describes is far from the norm in the places I travel to, or from what I hear from friends and old coworkers during lunches. Ageism, low-salaries, "sweatshop"-like/highly-political work environments, lack of diversity in companies/economic sectors, lack of
interesting problems to solve. All are observations of mine, as well as old friends' concerns voiced softly after looking over their shoulder during lunches over the past year or two.

Very good IT people (programmers/developers, DBAs, infrastructure, the whole gamut) wanting to leave their current job, but wondering where to go, because their friends in other "just as bad" companies are looking too. Discovering they can still get interviews--but maybe not the job--after age 35; and discovering the difficulty in even getting interviews after age 40. Watching their companies hire either H-1Bs for 40-50% of what they're paid, or college interns (or even recent grads for intern salaries) for even less.

Yeah, people would like to be making this much money in technology when their 50. But in most places, it's a pipe-dream.
Yep. My first thought was "is anyone actually surprised by this?"
Weekly Standard: Our 19th Century Curriculum
Also, this is what I would call a functioning market. People using SaaS products should make it very clear that skipping security will take "viable" out of you MVP. Making an example of them may be a humiliating experience for the guys who built this, but it incentivizes doing the right thing.
Escape is maybe not the best example but it seems like ever power users don't use F6 or F7 key
> compelling absurdity

It's also plausible.

Early Autodesk's entire business model was built on top of fleecing their dealer (value-added reseller) channel.

Ditto franchises, pyramid marketing, ponzi schemes.

That said, if you're smart and very lucky, it's possible to make real money playing in someone else's sandbox.